Jessica

[jes-i-kuh]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Jesse.

Example Sentences

Jessica Millan Patterson, a former chair of the state GOP and leader of the “No on Prop. 50 — Stop Sacramento’s Power Grab” committee, has been a longtime proponent of urging Republican voters to cast ballots as early and conveniently as possible.

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The downsizing “was really the nail in the coffin for government efforts to continue resettling Afghans who are eligible to come here,” said Jessica Bradley, a former official in that office who was let go in July.

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Others, like those of Sarah Jessica Parker or "Sound of Music" songstress Julie Andrews, hold drawings from television or film productions.

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During a broadcast this week of “The Five,” Democratic strategist Jessica Tarlov took aim at the president’s plan to build a grand ballroom in the White House, calling it “gaudy and self-indulgent.”

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They were held without being formally charged or tried, and entered a detention network where their cases were based on evidence to which the defendants and their lawyers, if they had one, didn’t get access, said Jessica Montell, executive director of HaMoked, an Israeli legal and human-rights organization.

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